will bo encouraged to refer t o i t nevcrtheless. I recommend i t highly, bobh for this use and as the text in a physical science cowfie for students whose primary intcrest,~lie in ofher directions.
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dfter a bricf introduction, this text considers astronomy, then mechanics, Theodore A. Ash:ford, St. Louis Unielectricity, light, and t h e structure of vcrsit,y, Hcnry Holt R: Co., Xew York. matter, each in separate chapters. The 1960. ix 645 pp. Figs. and tables. next six chapters discuss chemistry, m o l o 19 X 25 em. S8.50. culer, t h c kinet,ic theory, reactions, t,he Periodic Table, atomic structure, and the This is xn exrcllcnt text, n r l l dcsigned relation hetween atomic stroetoro and t o accomplish t,hc pmposc for which it was chemical properties. A chapter on n w mitten: "to givo th? s t ~ t d r n ta n underclear energy follow^; and the tcxt eonatnnding of the phg~icalworld as coneludes with two broad chapters, one on rrivcd hy t h e scientists of our time." the stellar universe, tho other on geology. The difliedt points are clarified by conEach chaptrr conclndes n i t h n. list of sistent and rvg.gnlxruse of familiar example. Notcs and Ereroises; many nf the exThus, bhr conelusion that the L a y of erciscs are stimulating, few require mere M d t i p l r Proportion8 indio~~tes that matber recall of textual material. An appmdix is compoprd of "pjwkagrs" callcd atoms of 13 pages sumrnarisrs mathematical is compand with thc problem of detertechniques, from simple iniiltiplication mining a-h&rr thc gursts a t s. tea party through exponents t o trigonometry. The swverteard th
